Gorton



(No Modal.)

. R. GO-RTON.

HOOK. NO. 472,948.

-Patented Apr. 12, 1-892.

UNiTED STATES ROBERT GORTON, OF PLANFIELD, NEV JERSEY.

PATENT OFFICE- HOOK.

SPECIFICAIION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 472,948, dated April 12, 1892.

Application filed April 23, 1891. Serial No. 390.138. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern.y

Be it known that I, ROBERT GORION, a citizen of the United States, residing at Plainfleld, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Hooks or Hangers, of which thefollowing is a specifioation.

My invention relates to that class of hooks or hangers which are madefrom a single piece of wire and which have a single pointed screwthreaded seau ring-shank. Hooks.of this class are usually formed of a single piece of round wire havihg one end pointed and screwthreaded and the other end formed into an eye or 100p 'surrounding that portion of the hook immediately in front of the screw-threaded shank. It is usual, also, to form hangars of this class with two hooks, the connecting piece between the upper and the lower hook constituting a brace.

According to my invention I dispense With the eye or 100p above referred to and am thus enabled to arrange all parts of the hook in the same plane, thus greatly facilitating packing. This I accomplish by arranging the two ends of the wire side by side to form the shank portion of the hook, permanently securing these ends together, and pointing and screwthreading them in the usual way. By this construction there are no free ends of the wire in any portion of the hook after it is once set up. Where the hanger is made of round wire and is provided with two hooks-an upper and a lower one-and the lower rear end of the bracing portion is supportedagainst the upright back piece or wire which connects the lower hook to the shank, there is a liability of the brace-wires slipping from the rear upright wire, as the contacting surfaces are quite small.

In my improved hook I use halfround wire and secure the ends thereof together and point and screw-thread them in' the way above described to form a securing-shank. I thus not only dispense With the eye usually employed, but, as will be readily apparent, there is considerable saving in material, and yet I maintain the desired strength and rigidity, and do so without unnecessary bends, ooils, or eyes. The downwardly-inclined bra'ce usually employed in hooks of this class is employed in my hook, and I connect the lower rear end of -this class as usually made.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation Of one of my improVed hooks with the two ends of the wire forming the screw-pointed shank welded together. Fig. 2 is a Simiit! view showing the two ends of the wire forming the screw-point twisted together. Fig. 3 is a detaii view showing the two ends of the wire twistd 'together andtu'rned down to a point, the sc'rew-thread not yet having been eut thereon; and Fig. 4: is a view showing a ceiling-hook made according to my invention.

The wire is bent as follows, halfround wire being shoivn in all the figures:

Referring to Fig. l,the horizontal wire a of the upper hook, the rear end of which forms one-hait of the screw-threaded shank ,ex-

tends forward the required distance, is then.

bent upwardly to form the point A of the upper hook, is then turned down, and is carried rearwardly to form the brace=A At the point I) the wire is bent downwardly, thon curved out and up to form the point I) of the lower hook, is then turned down, and carried back in contact with the 'other portion of the round wire being used, the fiat sides of the ends lie against each other and practically form around wire. This wire may be welded or swaged together electricaily or otherwise permanently secured, and npon the point thus formed the screw-thread is out. It will be observed that the two vertical portions of the wire b b abut against each other, and as their abutting surfaces are fiat a firm scat or support is provided to receiVe the rearward thrust of the brace A and no matter what the weight hung upon the, upper hook may be there Will be no tendency of the portion of the wire b to slip off of the Vertical portion b The hook bas, therefore, great strength. The bonds necessaryto form it are of the utmost simplioity, and consequently the cost of manufactureisreduced. Furthermore,hooks so made pack more closely, because they are perfectly fiat, all portions of the Wire being in the same plane, there being no eyesaround the shank, as is ordinarly the case in hooks of this class.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a hook of substantially the same construction. It differs from the hook already described only in two minor particulars: First, the two ends forming the pointed shank are twisted together and the sorew-thread is then outthereon. Fig. 3 shows the ends twi's'te'd, togerherand turned down before the t=hread is out. Second, the brace A instead of being carried downwardly and rearwardly from the end of the upper hook, extends back a short'distance parallel and in contact With the horizontal portion a, as seen at a and then extends rearwardly and downwardly to form the brace. the lower hook is as already described. By employing halfround wire with a less weight of metal I may have a greater bearing-surfaoe.that is, greater transverse Width of metalthan where ail-round wire is nsed, and at the same time the strength of the hook is increased. "By the use of halfround wire,

therefore, aside from the particular manner of bending, I am enabled-to reduce the costand improve the character of the hook. Further, I obtain a fi rm bearing for the brace v against the vertical portion 17 of the wire,

as already mentioned, and by the use of wire of this character I am enabled to bring the ends together and form the screw point or shank merely by welding or twisting.

the screw-shank direotly down to form the The formation of opposite hooks, as shown in dotted fines, or may be given an outward bend, as shown at y, to forma shoulder to limit the entrance of the screw-threaded Shank into its support and add to the strength of the hook by bracing it. V

I do not in this application claim, broadly, a hook formed of halfround wire in which the vertical portion of the brace haS-its fiat face resting against the fiat face of the vertical rear portion of the hook, these features being claimed in my application, Serial No. 425,735, filed March 21, 1892.

I claim as my invention l. A hook or hanger formed from a single piece of wire, with'its tWo ends brought together, arranged sideby side,and permanntly secured, pointed, and screw-threadedto form a securing-shank, substantially as described.*

2. A hanger formed from a single 'pieee of half round wire, having upper and. lower hooks, each composed of two portions of the wire, and having a securing -shank formed' downwardly and rearwardlyextending brace A the lower hook, and the vertical portion (9 against the fiat face of which the fiat face b of the lower portion of the brace A has its bearing.

In testimony wheneof I have hereunto sub- 

